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Conky is a light weight system monitor for Linux and BSD systems that displays information about your system on the root window. You’ve probably seen cool screenshots around the web that show a Linux desktop with all kinds of information printed to a part of the background. There’s a good chance that you were looking …

I recently received a Pogoplug as a birthday gift. If you’re not familiar with the Pogoplug, it is a small Linux based plug computer that allows you to share personal files over the web. You can think of it as your own personal cloud storage server. While you can always access your Pogoplug files through …

Xubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu Linux that uses the Xfce desktop environment for the user interface. It is one of the official derivatives of Ubuntu Linux. The intent is for Xubuntu to be easy to use while being attractive and light on system resources. From the Xubuntu Strategy Document: The target audience for Xubuntu …

The latest version of Ubuntu just came out; Ubuntu 13.04 – Raring Ringtail. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has done a good job setting up a set of defaults for a fresh install, but there are a few things you may want to add or change on your freshly installed OS.

From time to time I like to test out a new Linux distribution or just an updated version of my current distribution. I’ve created extra partitions on my hard drive for these test installations. All of the distributions I’ve tried so far require a boot loader to be installed to the hard drive as part …